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Dennis Frenchman and Alexander D'Hooghe.
Daou, Daniel (Daou Ornelas)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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2011-11-18T21:03:58Z
2011-11-18T21:03:58Z
2011
2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67223
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).
Mexico City was founded 700 years ago on man made islets in the middle of a lake. Today, it faces a contradictory situation were water is running scarce, but simultaneously the city runs the risk of drowning in its own sewage. A series of past projects -all addressing the hydrological imbalance- outline a lineage that makes pin pointing the intellectual coordinates of the present project easier. Taking Mexico City's Metropolitan Basin as an excuse, this thesis aims at systematizing an approach to deal with projects at scales that oscillate between the metropolitan region and the watershed. Synthetic Ecology is proposed for this purpose as the pluralistic and inclusive coexistence of urbanism, landscape design and engineering understood as autonomous fields.
by Daniel Daou.
S.M.
M.C.P.
79 p.
eng
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Urban Studies and Planning.
Architecture.
Synthetic ecology : revisiting Mexico City's lakes project
Revisiting Mexico City's lakes project
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